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"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."
"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."
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"For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded."
"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."
"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
"And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic."
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